VSD manages several specialized programs and resources: 

• The Terrorism and Special Jurisdictions program provides emergency assistance to injured victims and families of victims murdered in terrorist attacks within the U.S. and outside the country and serves as a permanent point-of-contact for terrorism victims within the FBI.
  
• The Child Pornography Victim Assistance program coordinates assistance and notification services for victims of child sexual abuse material and their guardians.
  
• The Child Victim Services program provides support to child victims and witnesses of federal crimes through investigative forensic interviews and offers indirect support to field victim specialists through consultation with child victim program coordinators. The team is focused on ensuring that any interactions with child victims or witnesses are tailored to the child's stage of development and minimize any additional trauma to the child.
  
• The Victim Assistance Program places victim specialists in FBI field offices across the country to personally assist victims of federal crimes investigated by the division or field office where they work; the program also supports cases globally.
  
• The Victim Services Response Team deploys to crisis and mass casualty events.
• Large-scale case support facilitates victim identification, notification, communication, and data analysis.
• Crisis response canines engage with victims, families, first responders, and law enforcement to mitigate stress and anxiety.
• Training and support provided to law enforcement and other partners includes how to build victim services programs, enhance child/adolescent forensic interviewing skills, deliver death notifications without further traumatizing family members, and conduct victim and family briefings following mass casualty events.